Audre Lorde Quotes on Life Silence Self-Care Women and Community

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1st of Top 20 Audre Lorde Quotes

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” – Audre Lorde

“Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.”- Audre Lorde

“Your silence will not protect you.”- Audre Lorde

 

“I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there”- Audre Lorde

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5th of Top 20 Audre Lorde Quotes

“There is nothing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”- Audre Lorde

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”- Audre Lorde

 

“To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless. You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.”- Audre Lorde

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“Revolution is not a one-time event.”- Audre Lorde

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”- Audre Lorde

 

10th of 20 Famous Audre Lorde Quotes

“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”- Audre Lorde

“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.”- Audre Lorde

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“If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.”- Audre Lorde

“You are the one that you are looking for.”- Audre Lorde

 

 

“I do not want to be tolerated, or misnamed. I want to be recognized.”- Audre Lorde

15th of 20 Inspirational Audre Lorde Quotes

“When we speak we are afraid that no one will hear our words and welcome us, but when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”- Audre Lorde

“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”- Audre Lorde

 

“Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.”- Audre Lorde

“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”- Audre Lorde

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“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”- Audre Lorde

2oth of 20 Famous Audre Lorde Quotes

“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.”- Audre Lorde

 

Bonus Audre Lorde Quotes (Motivational)

“Our visions begin with our desires.”- Audre Lorde

“The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which is the basis for understanding much of what is not share between them and lessens the threat of their difference.” – Audre Lorde

“Without community, there is no liberation.”- Audre Lorde

“We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.” – Audre Lorde

 

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